The follow up consult last Tuesday was not the resounding all clear I was hoping for. The phrase that stuck in my head is “I think you can be slightly optimistic.”
The treatment of the surgically treated tumour seems to have gone well and the cavity left by the excision has shrunk. As has the treatment of the second tumour, which has also shrunk visibly, and prompted him to say “I think that you can be reasonably optimistic.”
He also showed us a very small shadow (about 2mm) that has appeared since the Gamma Knife surgery. He then showed us the planning pictures with the targets surrounded by close yellow circles and slightly larger green circles. The yellow circles shows the ‘full dose’ area and the green circles the half dose area, as the dose drops of in a kind of inverse square from the target volume. The new shadow is within the yellow-green torus. He thought it “could be be an artefact of the treatment”. The only way to tell is for another scan and consult in three months.
That is about the time this adjuvant Chemotherapy finishes. So I think that a follow up three or six months after that will be much more important?